Pastor Garret Szantner
email: pastorgarret@lynnwoodreformed.org
Pastor Garret Szantner is from Rochester Hills, Michigan. His family worshipped within
the Catholic faith during his childhood.
He began to explore his own faith at
Hope College, graduated from Hope in 2011 with a BA in History and Political Science. Sensing a call to the pastoral ministry,
he enrolled at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, and received his Masters in Divinity in the spring of 2014. Garret’s immediate family includes his parents and three sisters.
Garret served as the Pastoral Associate of Youth and Care at Trinity Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He began his association with Trinity as a Pastoral Intern in 2011. He served as an intern at the Citadel of Faith in suburban Detroit, Michigan, with the internship inclusive of a jail ministry.
While at Western Seminary, Garret lived in the Friendship House, a setting for communal living of seminarians and highly functioning persons with cognitive disabilities.
Garret’s core desire is “to serve as a child of God who seeks after Jesus Christ daily, with mind, soul and strength.”
Jean La Crosse
Director of Church Music
Jean provides choral direction and accompaniment for the music ministries of Lynnwood. She desires to offer joyful praise and thanks to Jesus Christ through the music gifts and talents of individuals within the church and broader community. She welcomes all ages to participate. Ms. La Crosse studied with Leonore Witzemann Johndrow, and concert pianist Stanley Hummel, and is a member of the Eastern NY American Guild of Organists.
She previously served as Music Director for Helderberg, Altamont, and Bethany Reformed Churches. Jean was Municipal Clerk for the Village of Altamont retiring in 2009. She is a private piano teacher.
Amos
Pastoral Pup
“Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound,
that saved a pup like me!”
Amos, too, has found a loving and welcoming home at Lynnwood. Joining the office staff in December of 2017, the Pastoral Pup hopes to someday provide therapy to those in need of his endearing companionship.
He is a constant joy, and reminder that:
“All things bright and beautiful,
all creatures great and small.
All things wise and wonderful,
the Lord God made them all.”